Actually it's wages. For the bottom 60% of American households income has only gone up 25-30% in respect to inflation since 1965. Meanwhile the number of women in the work force has gone up by 50% in that time. In 1965 only 40% of women were in the work force now it's around 60%.
The late 60s is when they started creating money that led to the federal government defaulting on their obligations to redeem dollars for gold and ending the gold standard, at which point there was nothing restraining how many dollars they could create. It's all how the system is supposed to work.
Hundreds of years ago, Richard Cantillon explained what happens when new money is created. The people that get the new money first can enter the market and buy up wealth, goods, whatever they want, which causes the prices of those things to increase. As the money filters down to later people, prices have already increased, so they can buy less with that money than they could before. Wealth was physically transferred to the first users of the new money from the last users.
In our system, who gets new money first? Banks. So they invest in stocks, real estate, etc, and now normal people can't afford to buy a house. Next is the federal government, because most of the new money is created to buy their debt. So politicians get their paychecks, government contractors get paid, and so on, very little is actually sent out to its subjects directly. So that all gets spent through the system before we get any of it. And we get poorer and they get richer.
Of course then the idiot Trump decided it was a good idea to create new money and pass it out directly to us during covid, and with inflation now we're seeing why that doesn't work either. Creating new money always fucks us in the long run, but before that at least they hid it from most people.
But that's not what this thread is about, so I'll leave it at that. I don't care if women want to work or don't. If someone, man or woman, wants their career to mean everything to them, then the decent thing would be to not have kids at all, because once they have them, the kids should be #1 priority for both parents. But other than that, I don't give a shit what other people do.
